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shplane@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In the era, “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered good advice. If that’s how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, think about how many men already get drunk and beat the shit out of their wives. The person they supposedly love the most.

    Now imagine if they had a slave to take it out on instead.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There’s actually a lot of scholarship about how Southern plantation owners developed their child rearing philosophy on a misunderstanding of the Roman patriarchy combined with their newfangled “scientific racism,” conflating the discipline expected for both children and slaves.

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    • TeddE@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      All embedded in the modern slang ‘boy’.

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• SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was fed the line that NORTHERNERS treated their slaves well.

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• ShieldsUp@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have been reading through this book on the matter: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist goodreads.com/…/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-…

  The descriptions of violence toward slaves is heavily discussed and is quite eye-opening to me, since this is not the version I was taught in school!

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• nuggie_ss@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Compared to how other slaves were treated around the world, this is relatively true.

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